Lid for journal-boxes for railway-cars.



vv. E. WILUAMS. LID FOR JOURNAL BOXES FOR RAILWAY CARS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 9.19151 Patented Apr. 10, 1917.

vya muren enanas rentner ortica WILLIAM ERASTUS WILLIAMS, OE CHICAGO, ILLINOS.

LID FOR JOURNAL-BOXES IEORl RAILWAY-CARS.

Application filed July 9, 1915.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that lf, WILLIAM ERAsTUs W'ILLIAMS, a citizen of the United Sta-tes, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lids for Journal- BoXes for Railway-Cars, of which the fol-l lowing is a specification.

My invention relates to the means of fastening the lid to the lug of the journal box and to the means of fastening the spring, which closes the lid, into the body of the lid.

llfhe invention is set forth in the claims.

Reference will be had to the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure l is a front elevation of my lid.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation.

Fig. 3 is a. transverse sectional elevation through the central portion of the lid.

F ig. 4 is a cross section on line 1 4 of Fig. l.

Fig. 5 is an edge View of the upper end or pin connection of the lid.

Fig. 6 is a View similar to that oit Fig. 5 showing a modified form.

Fig. 7 is a plan of a metal strip used only in the modified i'orm as shown by `Fig. 6.

lin the drawing, l indicates the journal boX lid which is adapted to iit the Master Car Builders journal box. 2 indicates a stilening flange on the inside of the lid. 3 indicates the ordinary spring used with the Master Car Builder lid.

ln the spring 3 l punch a hole i shown in dotted lines in Fig. l. @n the inside oi the lid l cast three lugs, two of which are indicatedby 5 and the other by. All these lugs are cast With clearance to permit the spring 3 to slide into the embrace oi' the lugs. V

Un lug 6 'there is cast a projection 7 which is adapted to ht into the hole when Toent inward. lftfhen the spring 3 is in position the lugs 5 and 6 are crushed down from the dotted line positions to the full line positions shown in the drawings to clamp the spring 3 and positively secure it by the entrance of the projection 7 into the hole ll.

' has heen more or less customary to rivet the spring in place and it has also been clamped in place by lugs similar to mine. .li-rivet holes are objectionable for the reason that the rivet does not always iill the hole and the oil escapes out around the rivet. The fastening ci the spring by clamping ings is not always successful since the jar of Specication of Letters Patent.

the ordinary ear or pin hole projection lil Patented Apr. itil, lili?. serial no. 38,914.

the box sometimes jars the spring out of place, but the positive lock secured by my projection 7 When-hammered into the hole i of thespring, makes a permanent fastening. lt has been customary li'eretoiore to fasten lids to the lugs of journal boxes by pins or bolts and then secure the pins or bolts trom displacement, by Cotter pins and other devices and in some instances by riveting the heads of the pins or the bolts. The jar that these lids get jars out or Wears od the cotter pins and also abrades the rivet heads and the pins come out and the lids get lost.

Lids ofthis kind are usually made of cast 7 malleable iron or rolled iron or steel and li may make mine in either Way but the drawing here shown contemplates the use of cast malleable iron. rlhe lug oi the journal box is indicated by 8 and is here shown as the ordinary M. C, B. lug. 9 indicates the nose oi an ordinary journal box. ln place oi the ordinary pintle pin Which'is inserted through the hole in the lug to hold the lid in placei l cast two short pintle studs l@ upon some thin arms ll which are free from the main portion of the lid at all points save at the posts or studs l2. l provide the lid with perforated 1with the regular holes lei. i fastening the lid to the li' l bend the l, driving the studs l0 into the holes .Lfand into the regular pin hole in the lug o changing the position oiL the studs l0 a that of lFig. l to that of Fig. 2., tening the lid to the journal box lu Regardless of the length oi any f passes through the hole in a journal i the pin bears chieily at each end off or hole and the middle portion of periorms little or no se: fice wear rthis :tact causes many makers of l boxes to provide hearing surface 'il hole only at each end of ius'.

studs l0 furnish all the .t :im quired or ordinarily ob ed in usuai journal boi: design.

Malleable cast iron has almost no spring ing action or elasticity, so t -n my position shown in Fig. 2, the pliable, nonresilient lugs 15 are bent down, as indica-ted, locking the studs permanently.V

A lid usually remains on a box during the normal life of the box but at rare intervals the lid is taken o and placed on another box. To do this with my lid might break o the lugs 15. 16 in Fig. 5 indicates by shade-d lines a projection 15 broken oil.

Underneath this projection 1 regularly provide holes 17 through the lugs 13 and when desired a strip of metal 18, Figs. 6 and 7, is put through and its ends bent over as is shown in Fig. 6 taking the place of the projections 15.

When the lid is made of a stamping the strip of metal 18- may be used or the projections 15 may be made by forming them up from the upper margin of the lid. The arms 11 and studs 10 will then be made of separate pieces and properly fastened to the lid. These arms may then be made of spring steel holding the studs 10 normally in position of Fig. 2 and sprung open to Fig. 1 during the moment of applying the lid to the box.

Journal boxes receive many ars in service and it is desirable to lessen the parts where jarring may abrade the metal and Wear loose. llhen a separate pin is used there is opportunity for vibration to take place between the pin and the journal box lug and between the pin and the lid itself, and thus wear may simultaneously7 take place on all of these parts. `With the constrlilction here set forth, however, the studs being integral With the lid, vibration or relative movement of the parts is practically eliminated.

My lid is applicable to the regular Master Car Builders design and is interchangeable with any standard lid heretofore used, Which is a great desideratum.

lf from any cause the studs 10 become broken off from their arms 11, the lid may still be used by using an ordinary hinge pin.

What l claim is:

1. A lid of the class described having ears provided with hinge pintle holes and also having pliable arms each bearing a stud to serve as a pintle when the arms are properly bent to bring the stud into place.

2. A lid having ears provided with alining pintle perforations and further having arms rigidly connected at one end with the lid and at their other free ends provided with stride in position to project through said perforations, respectively, when the arms are properly bent.

3. A lid of the class described having pintle studs carried on pliable arms integrally connected to the lid, primarily out of proper pintle position and arranged to move into such position when the arms are suitably bent.

e. A lid of the class described having pintle studs carried on pliable arms integrally connected to the lid, primarily out of proper pintle position and arranged to move into such position when the arms are properly bent, and means for securing said studs in proper pintle position.

5. A lid of the class described provided with pintle studs arranged upon integral pliable arms to swing to proper pintle positions when the arms are properly bent, and with pliable lugs in position to be bent into place for holding said pintle studs in such proper position.

6. A lid of the class described having ears perforated for the passage of pintle members and further having studs, to serve as such members, mounted on the lid in movable relation thereto.

7. A lid of the class described having ears perforated to alloiv the passage of pintle members, having pintle members in movable relation to the body of the lid, and further having means for locking said members when in positionfor performing their pintle functions.

8. The combination with a lid provided with a projection secured to its body by a pliable inelastic metal connection7 of a flat spring lying on said body and provided With a perforation for the reception of said projection, When said connection is properly bent, for holding the spring in place.

9. The combination with a lid provided with inwardly bent, pliable, inelastic projections, of a flat spring itting against the lid alongside said projections, provided with a perforation, and rigidly held in place by vsaid projections, one of which extends into said perforation, substantially as set forth.

Signed at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of illinois, this 28th day of June, 1915.

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